Redistribution of wealth is not the rich sharing their money with the poor but rather ordinary people giving more wealth to banks as their debt is increased causing inflation thus less purchasing power for coming generations. Debt becomes money.
One dollar is really worth a billion dollars if it is used a billion times to purchase items that have been bought and sold over and over again as used items. Money may buy new items that are produced as more money is printed, but true value comes from the dilution of earlier production and old money that has been returned to banks as a loss, not as an addition against the debt. The loss is fake money when the debt is not paid and is real when it is loaned out.
We can never start from zero when one is actually a billion.
Items produced are worth more to the bank under inflation when they kick the can down the road. Money is printed exponentially because production uses resources and energy right now and the value can be added today as the cost to produce it becomes cheaper than keeping products around for a hundred years.
Melting gold to make swords makes sense only when the enemy supplies the gold and the swords will be used in a war that has not happened yet, if war is inevitable.
The burden of the poor is that the value of goods whether new or ancient, as credit or debt, does not affect what they can purchase on their own when debt is not theirs to accumulate anyway.
It doesn’t make sense that the supply of gold going to the enemy to sustain a perpetual war on the poor causes them to take up swords and turn on the oppressed when the swords outnumber the oppressor.
We can never start from zero when one is actually a billion.
War is inevitable when gold is in the hands of the enemy.